Beyond compliance: harmonising research and husbandry practices to improve experimental reproducibility using fish models

Improving zebrafish laboratory welfare and scientific research through understanding their natural history

(2022) Carole J. Lee et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Laboratory versus wild populations: the importance of population origin in aquatic ecotoxicology

(2022) Alberto Romero-Blanco et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH

Role of Environment and Experimenter in Reproducibility of Behavioral Studies With Laboratory Mice

(2022) Martina Nigri et al.   Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Reduced physiological plasticity in a fish adapted to stable temperatures

(2022) Rachael Morgan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A Combined Human in Silico and CRISPR/Cas9-Mediated in Vivo Zebrafish Based Approach to Provide Phenotypic Data for Supporting Early Target Validation

(2022) Matthew J. Winter et al.   Frontiers in Pharmacology

Assessment of the Potential Ecotoxicological Effects of Pharmaceuticals in the World's Rivers

(2022) Alejandra Bouzas‐Monroy et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY

Microbiomes in agroecosystem: Diversity, function and assembly mechanisms

(2022) Chao Xiong et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

Zebrafish as an animal model for biomedical research

(2021) Tae-Young Choi et al.   EXPERIMENTAL AND MOLECULAR MEDICINE

Global variation in freshwater physico‐chemistry and its influence on chemical toxicity in aquatic wildlife

(2021) João Paulo S. Pinheiro et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Effect of disinfection of non-hardened Salmo trutta eggs with Chloramine T®, Wofasteril®, and hydrogen peroxide on embryo and larvae viability, microorganism load, lipid peroxidation, and protein carbonylation

(2021) Franz Lahnsteiner   AQUACULTURE INTERNATIONAL

What does a Culture of Care look like? Lessons learnt from a workshop survey

(2021) Sally Robinson et al.   LAB ANIMAL

The Effects of Early Life Stress on the Brain and Behaviour: Insights From Zebrafish Models

(2021) Helen Eachus et al.   Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology

Assessing wild genetic background and parental effects on size of growth hormone transgenic coho salmon

(2021) Erin Kathleen McClelland et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FISHERIES AND AQUATIC SCIENCES

Feed, Microbiota, and Gut Immunity: Using the Zebrafish Model to Understand Fish Health

(2020) Adrià López Nadal et al.   Frontiers in Immunology

Behavioural effects of the common brain-infecting parasite Pseudoloma neurophilia in laboratory zebrafish (Danio rerio)

(2020) Helene L. E. Midttun et al.   Scientific Reports

Maternal predation risk increases offspring’s exploration but does not affect schooling behavior

(2020) Silvia Cattelan et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Physiological changes in response to social isolation in male medaka fish

(2020) Airi Otsuka et al.   FISHERIES SCIENCE

Taking an interest in small animal research programs

(2020) Christopher S. Keator   LAB ANIMAL

Maternal stress during pregnancy affects activity, exploration and potential dispersal of daughters in an invasive fish

(2020) Katie E. McGhee et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

A fish is not a mouse: understanding differences in background genetics is critical for reproducibility

(2020) Marcus J. Crim et al.   LAB ANIMAL

Interactions Between Maternal, Paternal, Developmental, and Immediate Environmental Effects on Anti-predator Behavior of the Snail Physa acuta

(2020) Juliette Tariel et al.   Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

The Importance of Complementary Collaboration of Researchers, Veterinarians, and Husbandry Staff in the Successful Training of Marmoset Behavioral Assays

(2020) Takeshi Murai et al.   ILAR JOURNAL

Effects of developmental stress on animal phenotype and performance: a quantitative review

(2019) Harrison J.F. Eyck et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Visualizing Engrafted Human Cancer and Therapy Responses in Immunodeficient Zebrafish

(2019) Chuan Yan et al.   CELL

Living at the Extremes: Extremophiles and the Limits of Life in a Planetary Context

(2019) Nancy Merino et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Live imaging the foreign body response in zebrafish reveals how dampening inflammation reduces fibrosis

(2019) David B. Gurevich et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE

Influence of Commercial and Laboratory Diets on Growth, Body Composition, and Reproduction in the Zebrafish Danio rerio

(2019) L. Adele Fowler et al.   Zebrafish

Use of Zebrafish in Drug Discovery Toxicology

(2019) Steven Cassar et al.   CHEMICAL RESEARCH IN TOXICOLOGY

Isogenic lines in fish – a critical review

(2019) Roman Franěk et al.   Reviews in Aquaculture

New insights into organ-specific oxidative stress mechanisms using a novel biosensor zebrafish

(2019) Sulayman Mourabit et al.   ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL

The Influence of Behavioral, Social, and Environmental Factors on Reproducibility and Replicability in Aquatic Animal Models

(2019) Christine Lieggi et al.   ILAR JOURNAL

Review: Assessing fish welfare in research and aquaculture, with a focus on European directives

(2018) M. Toni et al.   Animal

Social environment modulates anxiogenic effects of caffeine in zebrafish

(2018) Daniele Neri et al.   BEHAVIOURAL PHARMACOLOGY

Increasing the reliability and reproducibility of aquatic ecotoxicology: Learn lessons from aquaculture research

(2018) Neil Wang   ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY

Genome editing in fishes and their applications

(2018) Bo Zhu et al.   GENERAL AND COMPARATIVE ENDOCRINOLOGY

Consistency of fish-shoal social network structure under laboratory conditions

(2018) K. A. Gaffney et al.   JOURNAL OF FISH BIOLOGY

Population genetic diversity in zebrafish lines

(2018) Michele Balik-Meisner et al.   MAMMALIAN GENOME

Reproducibility and replicability of rodent phenotyping in preclinical studies

(2018) Neri Kafkafi et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

Reproducibility and replicability in zebrafish behavioral neuroscience research

(2018) Robert Gerlai   PHARMACOLOGY BIOCHEMISTRY AND BEHAVIOR

Use of zebrafish models to investigate rare human disease

(2018) Kathryn Isabel Adamson et al.   JOURNAL OF MEDICAL GENETICS

Zebrabase: An Intuitive Tracking Solution for Aquatic Model Organisms

(2018) Jana Oltova et al.   Zebrafish

An Open-Source Husbandry Repository

(2018) Christopher Mark LaCoursiere et al.   Zebrafish

Social isolation impairs active avoidance performance and decreases neurogenesis in the dorsomedial telencephalon of rainbow trout

(2018) Maria Soledad Ausas et al.   PHYSIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR

Legal aspects of zebrafish neuropharmacology and neurotoxicology research

(2018) Murilo S. de Abreu et al.   REGULATORY TOXICOLOGY AND PHARMACOLOGY

PREPARE: guidelines for planning animal research and testing

(2017) Adrian J Smith et al.   LABORATORY ANIMALS

The use of fish models to study human neurological disorders

(2017) Hideaki Matsui   NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH

Early life experiences have complex and long-lasting effects on behavior

(2017) Bruce A. Carlson   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Transgenerational inheritance of neurobehavioral and physiological deficits from developmental exposure to benzo[ a ]pyrene in zebrafish

(2017) Andrea L. Knecht et al.   TOXICOLOGY AND APPLIED PHARMACOLOGY

Environmental epigenetics in zebrafish

(2017) Vincenzo Cavalieri et al.   Epigenetics & Chromatin

Mercury-induced epigenetic transgenerational inheritance of abnormal neurobehavior is correlated with sperm epimutations in zebrafish

(2017) Michael J. Carvan et al.   PLoS One

Tank size alters mean behaviours and individual rank orders in personality traits of fish depending on their life stage

(2016) Giovanni Polverino et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Tank size and fish management history matters in experimental design

(2016) Åsa Maria Espmark et al.   AQUACULTURE RESEARCH

The common neural parasitePseudoloma neurophiliacauses altered shoaling behaviour in adult laboratory zebrafish (Danio rerio) and its implications for neurobehavioural research

(2016) S Spagnoli et al.   JOURNAL OF FISH DISEASES

Decreasing institutionally imposed regulatory burden for animal research

(2016) Stacy Pritt et al.   LAB ANIMAL

The Vital Relationship Between Nutrition and Health in Zebrafish

(2016) Stephen A. Watts et al.   Zebrafish

Recommendations for Health Monitoring and Reporting for Zebrafish Research Facilities

(2016) Chereen Collymore et al.   Zebrafish

European Zebrafish Meeting 2015 Husbandry Session Report

(2016) Zoltán M. Varga et al.   Zebrafish

Husbandry and Health Program Survey Synopsis

(2016) Christian Lawrence et al.   Zebrafish

Maintenance of Zebrafish Lines at the European Zebrafish Resource Center

(2016) Robert Geisler et al.   Zebrafish

Fish nutrition research: past, present and future

(2015) Malcolm Jobling   AQUACULTURE INTERNATIONAL

Workshop report: The medaka model for comparative assessment of human disease mechanisms

(2015) Ronald B. Walter et al.   COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY C-TOXICOLOGY & PHARMACOLOGY

Transgenerational inheritance of heart disorders caused by paternal bisphenol A exposure

(2015) Marta Lombó et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Dietary input of microbes and host genetic variation shape among-population differences in stickleback gut microbiota

(2015) Chris CR Smith et al.   ISME Journal

Transgenerational effects from early developmental exposures to bisphenol A or 17α-ethinylestradiol in medaka, Oryzias latipes

(2015) Ramji K. Bhandari et al.   Scientific Reports

Multi-site evaluation of the rearing performances of 5 wild populations of European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax)

(2014) Marc Vandeputte et al.   AQUACULTURE

Animal Husbandry and Experimental Design

(2014) T. Nevalainen   ILAR JOURNAL

The physiology of fish at low pH: the zebrafish as a model system

(2014) R. W. M. Kwong et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Casting a wider fish net on animal models in neuropsychiatric research

(2014) Zachary J. Hall et al.   PROGRESS IN NEURO-PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY & BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY

Reproducibility in experimentation – the implications for regulatory toxicology

(2014) Sir Colin Berry   Toxicology Research

Beyond the zebrafish: diverse fish species for modeling human disease

(2013) M. Schartl   Disease Models & Mechanisms

Zebrafish (Danio rerio) as a model for the study of aging and exercise: Physical ability and trainability decrease with age

(2013) Matthew J.H. Gilbert et al.   EXPERIMENTAL GERONTOLOGY

Fundamental Approaches to the Study of Zebrafi sh Nutrition

(2013) S. A. Watts et al.   ILAR JOURNAL

The zebrafish reference genome sequence and its relationship to the human genome

(2013) Kerstin Howe et al.   NATURE

Housing Conditions Differentially Affect Physiological and Behavioural Stress Responses of Zebrafish, as well as the Response to Anxiolytics

(2012) Matthew O. Parker et al.   PLoS One

The challenges of implementing pathogen control strategies for fishes used in biomedical research

(2011) Christian Lawrence et al.   COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY C-TOXICOLOGY & PHARMACOLOGY

Health of farmed fish: its relation to fish welfare and its utility as welfare indicator

(2011) Helmut Segner et al.   FISH PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY

Behavioural indicators of welfare in farmed fish

(2011) Catarina I. M. Martins et al.   FISH PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY

Zebrafish embryos as an alternative to animal experiments—A commentary on the definition of the onset of protected life stages in animal welfare regulations

(2011) Uwe Strähle et al.   REPRODUCTIVE TOXICOLOGY

Female sticklebacks transfer information via eggs: effects of maternal experience with predators on offspring

(2010) E. R. Giesing et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Absence of nigral degeneration in aged parkin/DJ-1/PINK1 triple knockout mice

(2009) Tohru Kitada et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROCHEMISTRY

Environmental Effects on Fish Sex Determination and Differentiation

(2009) J.F. Baroiller et al.   Sexual Development

Variability in measures of reproductive success in laboratory-kept colonies of zebrafish and implications for studies addressing population-level effects of environmental chemicals

(2008) G PAULL et al.   AQUATIC TOXICOLOGY

Detection of Mercury in Aquatic Environments Using EPRE Reporter Zebrafish

(2008) Brandon W. Kusik et al.   MARINE BIOTECHNOLOGY